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Top left photograph: Robert Smalls’ nine grandchildren, ca.1898, Beaufort, SC.
Description: These are the children of Robert Small's daughter, Elizabeth Smalls Bampfield and her husband, Samuel James Bampfield.
"This is a picture of my maternal grandmother – shown here as a 1 year old infant Ariana Bampfield (Blulware) – along with her older siblings." - Michael Boulware Moore, gr-great grandson.

Front, left to right: Ariana Bampfield Boulware (baby), Albert Barnes Bampfield, and Helen Bampfield Givens (baby).
Back, left to right: Elizabeth Bampfield Hall, Sarah Bampfield Meyer (holding baby in her lap), Janet Bampfield Davidson, Maria Bampfield Simpson, Julia Bampfield Stinson (holding baby in lap), and Robert Smalls Bampfield.

Top right photograph: Portrait of Civil War Hero Robert Smalls, ca. between 1870 and 1880. -Photographer: Mathew Brady - Sourced from LOC

Left bottom photograph: Robert Small's daughter, Elizabeth Smalls Bamfield on her 70th birthday, seated second from left with nine of her surviving children - the grandchildren of Robert Smalls, Charlotte, NC,
ca. Early 1930s.
Seated left to right: Sarah Bampfield Meyer, Mrs. Elizabeth Smalls Bampfield, Julia Bampfield Stinson, and Elizabeth Bampfield Hall.
Standing left to right: Ariana Bampfield Boulware, Robert Smalls Bampfield, Janet Bampfield Davidson, Maria Bampfield Simpson, Albert Barnes Bampfield, and Helen Bampfield Givens,

Both Left top and bottom photographs sourced from The International African American Museum, South Carolina - Contributed by Michael Boulware Moore, Robert Small's great-great grandson.
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Civil War hero Robert Smalls had children with his first wife Hannah (Elizabeth Lydia & Robert Jr.), and a son William Robert with his second wife Annie, with his descendants including grandchildren like Ariana Bampfield (through Elizabeth) and prominent figures like great-great-grandson Michael B. Moore.

While specific details for all branches are vast, his family line extended through his daughters, especially Elizabeth, who had children and grandchildren carrying on the legacy.

Children of Robert Smalls:
Elizabeth Lydia Smalls (born 1858) - Daughter with Hannah.
Robert Jr. - Son with Hannah, died young.

William Robert Smalls (1892-1970) - Son with Annie Wigg.

Descendants & Legacy:
Robert Smalls' descendants, like his great-great-grandson Michael B. Moore (who ran for Congress in South Carolina) and great-granddaughter Helen (who promoted his legacy), continue to honor his memory.
In essence, Smalls' direct children were Elizabeth, Robert Jr., and William; his grandchildren came primarily through his surviving daughter Elizabeth, with many descendants still active today.
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Robert Smalls Pt. 1: An Overview, Early Life and Family
Robert Smalls (April 5, 1839 – February 23, 1915) was an American politician, publisher, businessman, and maritime pilot.

Born enslaved in Beaufort, South Carolina, he freed himself, his crew, and their families during the American Civil War by commandeering a Confederate transport ship, CSS Planter, in Charleston harbor, on May 13, 1862, and sailing it from Confederate-controlled waters of the harbor to the U.S. blockade that surrounded it. He then piloted the ship to the Union-controlled enclave in Beaufort–Port Royal–Hilton Head area, where it became a Union warship. His example and persuasion helped convince President Abraham Lincoln to accept African-American soldiers into the Union Army.

After the American Civil War he returned to Beaufort and became a politician, winning election as a Republican to the South Carolina Legislature and the United States House of Representatives during the Reconstruction era. Smalls authored state legislation providing for South Carolina to have the first free and compulsory public school system in the United States. He founded the Republican Party of South Carolina. Smalls was the last Republican to represent South Carolina’s 5th congressional district until the election of Mick Mulvaney in 2011.

Early Life
Robert Smalls was born in 1839 to Lydia Polite, a woman enslaved by Henry McKee. She gave birth to him in a cabin behind McKee’s house, at 511 Prince Street in Beaufort, South Carolina. He grew up in the city under the influence of the Lowcountry Gullah culture of his mother. His mother lived as a servant in the house but grew up in the fields. Robert was favored over other enslaved people, so his mother worried that he might grow up not understanding the plight of enslaved field workers, and asked for him to be made to work in the fields and to witness whipping.

When he was 12, at the request of his mother, Smalls’ master sent him to Charleston to hire out as a laborer for one dollar a week, with the rest of the wage being paid to his master. The youth first worked in a hotel, then became a lamplighter on Charleston’s streets. In his teen years, his love of the sea led him to find work on Charleston’s docks and wharves. Smalls worked as a longshoreman, a rigger, a sail maker, and eventually worked his way up to become a wheelman, more or less a helmsman, though slaves were not permitted that title. As a result, he was very knowledgeable about Charleston harbor.

Family
At age 17, Smalls married Hannah Jones, an enslaved hotel maid, in Charleston on December 24, 1856. She was five years his senior and already had two daughters. Their own first child, Elizabeth Lydia Smalls, was born in February 1858. Three years later they had a son, Robert Jr., who later died at age two. Robert aimed to pay for their freedom by purchasing them outright for $800. Smalls and his family attended Berean Baptist Church when living in Washington, D.C. Smalls was a Prince Hall mason as a member of Sons of Beaufort Lodge #36.

Hannah Smalls died on July 28, 1883. On April 9, 1890, Robert Smalls married Annie E. Wigg, a Charleston schoolteacher, who bore him one son, William Robert Smalls (1892–1970). Annie Smalls died on November 5, 1895.

Smalls died of malaria and diabetes on February 23, 1915, at the age of 75. He was buried in his family’s plot in the churchyard of the Tabernacle Baptist Church in downtown Beaufort. The monument to Smalls in this churchyard reads a statement he made to the South Carolina legislature in 1895: “My race needs no special defense, for the past history of them in this country proves them to be the equal of any people anywhere. All they need is an equal chance in the battle of life.”


Sources: The International African American Museum, South Carolina - Contributed by Michael Boulware Moore, Robert Small's great-great grandson; Beaufort dot com; Wikipedia